Thank you.
It can still be a means of payment if there will be a lot of merchants that will utilize the Lightning Network. It is not yet popular, but if this will go mainstream, a lot of people will like to use bitcoin LN because of its very minimal fees. And right now, a lot of crypto users are still familiar with the bitcoin on-chain, in which, the fees are dependent on the mempool activity. So if you want to avoid high fees, you can also check the mempool activity before you send your bitcoin, that is, if the time is not important for you.
LN is still on that testing or development stage where it cant really be just used to be as main driver but actually there are already sites or services that do make use LN but it isnt really still recognized
nor suggested to be going on main.
Bitcoin fees now are way too high even with the lowest priority having almost 10 bucks for you to pay but if you arent on a hurry then its better to wait for the entire network to calm or does have minimal transactions.
Or simply you can opt in to make use other payment methods on using altcoins which is way more cheaper and faster.